School of Information Sciences

2025-2026 Gryphon Lecture: Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Missing Stories in American Library History

Wayne Wiegand

Wayne A. Wiegand, the F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies Emeritus at Florida State University, will present "Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Missing Stories in American Library History.

Wiegand is colloquially known as the “Dean of American Library Historians,” among many other titles. He is the author of The American Public School Library: A History and In Silence or Indifference: Racism and the Jim Crow Segregated Public School Libraries.

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A reception will follow the lecture.

This event is sponsored by The Center for Children's Books

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